Majority Quotes

"That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world."
-John Adams

"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
-Mark Twain

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
-Thomas Jefferson

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master."
-Sallust

"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."
-Edmund Burke

"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."
-Barber B. Conable, Jr.

"We feel that the vast, vast majority of 16-year-olds are able to drive safely."
-Dave Druker

"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
-Bertrand Russell

"We fought them off for the majority of the game."
-Josh Chapman

"We're strongly opposed. We feel (consolidation) has already gone too far and the vast majority of the American people feel the same."
-Craig Aaron

"Our season-ticket holders have been notified. It (the lottery) was based on seniority. The majority of our allocation will go to season-ticket holders."
-Bill Keenist

"I would much rather that this program was never made, and I am certain that the majority of my members would agree with me."
-Christine Payne

"We may be the only conference ? I'm sure we are the only conference ? in the country where the majority of institutions are being penalized by the NCAA."
-Peter Nicholson

"Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side."
-Claude Mcdonald

"Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule."
-Jefferson Davis

"There are different ways the city could be involved. We've not made any determination in terms of incentives, but ... a large majority of these developments ... there are some types of incentives that are involved."
-Justin Ohlemiller

"The majority of them were scared."
-Kevin Earley

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
-Ralph W. Sockman

"A large majority of the U.S. public supports use of red light cameras."
-David Snyder

"The majority of the money, they raised themselves."
-Janice Jorgenson

"As far as I was concerned, George Burley was bringing the players in - the majority of them anyway."
-John Mcglynn

"While there are people for whom this is an easy ride, for the vast majority, bankruptcy is not an easy ride."
-Karen Gross

"By keeping the majority of the site free, we will continue to scale the business through strong advertising growth."
-Martin Nisenholtz

"I represent the legislature. When I go to the vote, I try to represent the majority view, but I can't make an informed vote until the issue is discussed."
-William Ryan